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• • September 15, 2010 at 7:24 am #57000
    Roland

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    Okay so I have a slight problem: a large number of business cards have been made with the phone number formatted like this:
    M +31 612 34 56 78
    Now the client wants to have them formatted like this:
    M +31 6 1234 5678

    I can do it by hand, but I'm sure a GREP find & replace will be faster. Only problem is, I can't figure it out :(

  • September 15, 2010 at 8:05 am #57003
    Roland

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    I need to get a forum of my own to post questions in… every time I do that, I find the answer right afterwards:

    Find:

    (b6)(d+) (d+) (d+) (d+)

    Replace with:

    $1 $2$3 $4$5

    Sorry for all the edits, but the slashes kept disappearing …

  • September 15, 2010 at 8:26 am #57006
    Anonymous

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    That's one way to do it :D

    But honestly I can't think of an easier way, but it's great when you can figure it out too! :D

  • September 15, 2010 at 1:22 pm #57020
    Theunis De Jong

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    That's really good, Roland! Pat on the back from Holland.

    I had a go at it, and you seem correct: it needs 5 groups (perhaps 4, if you don't include the '6' and put it in the replace).

    You are in luck if all of the phone numbers are formatted the way you shown, otherwise it'd need .. let me see … This monstrosity:

    Find

    31 6(d) *(d) *(d) *(d) *(d) *(d) *(d) *(d)

    Replace

    31 6 $1$2$3$4 $5$6$7$8

    — and you'd better hope all of them start with the same “31 6” prefix, because InDesign's GREP stops counting at $9!

  • September 15, 2010 at 11:41 pm #57024
    Roland

    Member

    Thanks guys :)

    Luckily the phone numbers were all the same formatting. I had to change them because they weren't formatted as the original designer had “envisioned” them. Huge egos but apparently no idea how to set up color profiles (US SWOP and sRGB for print work in the Netherlands? Really?) or how to use layers in Illustrator and InDesign… Man I love these “professionals”.

    “– and you'd better hope all of them start with the same “31 6″ prefix, because InDesign's GREP stops counting at $9!”
    I guess we're lucky our phone numbers only have 10 digits then :)

  • September 24, 2010 at 2:13 pm #57117
    Gfx-Dzine

    Member

    Who knows.. maybe it's fate and the roots of the designer who had 'envisioned' the design go way back to the guy that came up with grep…

    :)

    Another way of saying 'Hi' from another Dutchie to you both (reporting from Turkey atm though) :)

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